Municipal Waste Data Monitoring and Reporting: Interim Guidelines

This Annex contains a list of the waste management terms that have been used in
this report.
BIODEGRADABLE MUNICIPAL
WASTE
BRING RECYCLING SCHEMES
BULKY HOUSEHOLD WASTE
CAPTURE RATE
CIVIC AMENITY SITES
COMMERCIAL WASTE
COMPOSTED
Any municipal waste that is capable of undergoing anaerobic or
aerobic decomposition, such as food and garden waste, and paper
and paperboard.
Council Directive 1999/31/EEC of 26 April 1999 on the landfill of waste
Facilities where members of the public can bring dry recyclable
materials (e.g. paper, glass, cans, textiles, shoes, etc.) at
supermarkets or other locations, but not civic amenity sites
operated by District Councils.
Waste too large and cumbersome to be included in ordinary waste
collection. Collected either free of charge or for a small fee.
For kerbside recycling of dry recyclables;
the proportion of a particular material that has been recycled (i.e.
diverted away from disposal routes) as a direct result of the
introduction of a collection scheme, in a particular area.
It is a measure of the efficiency with which householders separate
recyclable materials from their waste. In other words, the
percentage of the available material in the waste that people
participating in a recycling scheme separate for kerbside
collection. For example if there is 10Kg of paper in the waste
stream and 5Kg are separated for recycling, this represented a
50% capture rate.
Sites provided and operated by District Councils for the public
and in some cases businesses to bring waste for recycling and
disposal.
Waste from premises used wholly or mainly for the purposes of a
trade or business or the purposes of sport, recreation or
entertainment, excluding household waste, industrial waste,
waste from any mine or quarry and waste from premises used for
agriculture".
The controlled biological decomposition and stabilization of
organic of organic substrates, under conditions that are
predominantly aerobic and that allow the development of
thermophilic temperatures as a result of biologically produced
heat. It results in a final product (‘compost’) that has been
sanitized and stabilized, is high in humic substances and can be
used as a soil improver, as an ingredient in growing media, or
blended to produce a topsoil that will meet British Standard BS
3882, incorporating amendment No. 1.
DETR Guidance on Municipal Waste Management Strategies – 2001